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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?
(a) They are mating.
(b) They are talking.
(c) They are counting.
(d) They are calling others.

2. What is the name of the hospital in which the narrator is residing?
(a) St. Julian's.
(b) St. Mary's.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) St. Merryn's.

3. What happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?
(a) The plant grew to 18 feet.
(b) The plant walked.
(c) The plant died.
(d) The plant talked.

4. What does Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?
(a) Triffid plants.
(b) Pink triffid oil.
(c) Triffid seeds.
(d) Triffid instructions.

5. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?
(a) He ate one accidentally.
(b) He killed one.
(c) He grew one for a science project.
(d) He was stung by one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?

2. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?

3. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?

4. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?

5. What falls from Umberto's plane?

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